Creating and Using a Mendeley Account
Creating Account
1. Go to: www.mendeley.com A screen shot of the Mendeley URL and homepage is shown below.
2. Sign up for an account with your first name, last name, email address, interests, and password. A screenshot of the
form is available below for your reference.
Using Mendeley
1. Five Options exist in Mendeley: Dashboard, My Library, Papers, Groups, and People
Dashboard—Discusses current events and happenings in Mendeley.
My Library—Shows all the articles you have located and stored in your Mendeley account.
Papers—Browse a library full of papers written by other people who use Mendeley.
Groups—People, who have Mendeley accounts, and want to share articles in one location. Creating a group might make
it easier to store papers, which all of you can reference at one time rather than saving it to your personal account and
then emailing the paper or citation to 5 different people.
People—List of other people you have “added” as contacts to your Mendeley account. A contact will shorten the
amount of time it takes for you to share a document with others.
2. Install the Web Importer! This makes getting documents into your Mendeley Library easy. The Web Importer
installation is the 6th button from the left within your “My Library” in your Mendeley Account. So, select Web Importer
and then follow the instructions below:
PC Pals: Right click the “Import to Mendeley” option and select Bookmark link. Then go to the bookmark tab on your
Browser (Firefox, Chrome,..) and add it as you would a favorite website.
Mac Fans: Hit the Options button and select copy link. Then add it as a bookmark in your most frequently used
browser.
3. Saving documents in Mendeley
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Locate the document that you wish to save.
Go to your book marked Mendeley Importer. It will ask you for some information about where you want to
store it, tags (words specific to document), and any notes (This would be good for Paper X in Class B.).
Save the document and it will take you directly into your Mendeley Library.
4. Recommended-not necessary: Download Mendeley to the computer you use primarily for school assignments.
If you choose to do it, the button is green and at the bottom of the right hand side of the page within your Mendeley
account. It is called “Download Mendeley for free.”